An Accra Human Rights Court will on Tuesday hear the suit against the Commission of Enquiry into creation of new regions.
The court presided over by Justice Gifty Agyei Addo in February adjourned the case to allow the State to file its statement of case.
The principal state attorney, Jonathan Acquah, had told the court that the state had filed an application in opposition to the application seeking the judicial review.
But the court rejected the claim, given the state seven days to file a statement of case
The chief of Srogboe in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region, Togbi Patamia IV brought suit against the Minister for Regional Reintegration, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice and the Commission of Inquiry for the creation of new regions.
The suit filed by the Chief Torgbi Patamia IV is pleading with the court to allow the committee to return to other parts of the Volta Region that were not visited.
According to the plaintiffs, the Commission concentrated its meetings only in the northern parts of the region, neglecting those in the south.
The chief is seeking the following reliefs:
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- A declaration that the decision to hold public hearings into the creation of the new region in the Volta Region only in the Northern part save for Ho, the regional capital infringes applicants’ fundamental human rights guaranteed under the constitution, 1992.
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- A declaration that the exercise of second respondents’ discretion in selecting only venues in the North, save for Ho, the regional capital is arbitrary, bereft of candor and unreasonable, given the Commission’s terms of reference in clear violation of Article 296 of the 1992 constitution.
- An order compelling the respondents herein to extend to the South of the Volta Region, public hearings into the matter of the creation of the new region in the Volta Region.
